Addiction. Im an animal. I dont care about anything or anyone. And motherhood. Big hug by day, boston, massachusetts is both a modern metropolis and home to some of americas earliest historical sights. But like all big cities there is an underbelly of drugs and crime that is left to the citys Law Enforcement agencies to combat. Located just outside downtown is a key landmark in that battle, the Suffolk County jail. The jail is a maximum security facility, it holds anyone who is arrested and held on a bail they cant make. That could be someone charged with shoplifting and it is very frequently someone charged with homicide. Unlike prison where all inmates have been convicted and sentenced, most jail inmates have only been charged with crimes and are innocent until proven guilty. Suffolk county has an average daily population of 700 such detainees, along with nearly 2,000 other inmates who have been convicted and are serving short sentences. Were the largest Sheriffs Department in the no
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the neighborhood that i m from, the armpit of massachusetts, it s gangbangers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and addicts. i love it. i don t know what it is about that place because it s disgusting, but i [ bleep ] love it. i was 14 when i started shooting heroin. normal 14-year-olds aren t shooting heroin. i think there s very few times i ve come in here and it s not direct result of use. there s not many times that i can say i ve been in my right frame of mind and walked through these doors. melanie reddy s prior convictions have usually been misdemeanors related to her drug use. this time she s been here for a month on a violation known locally as common night walking. it is prostitution. it s a form of prostitution. anyone can be charged with it walking at night in a known prostitution area. welcome to the commonwealth.
reddy s 4 1/2-year-old daughter is now being raised by her mother and sister. reddy says they still have some contact, although her daughter doesn t know she s in jail. they ve told my daughter that i m in school. however, now she s scared to get on the school bus because her mother doesn t come home from school. so i don t know if it s better or worse. my kid s probably the only thing that s ever mattered to me, ever. she s too good to be around me when i m getting high. she doesn t deserve that. when i m not doing the right thing, she has no business being around me. and i have no business being around her. it s a tough pill to swallow because no matter what, i still get high. i thought my kid would keep me clean. unfortunately she didn t. right now, if reddy is missing anything, it s the temptations she can find on the streets of boston. we got windows in our cells that overlook downtown boston where i run at.